Some Thoughts on Google’s Bookmarking and Linkrolling Strategy

If you use Google Reader you can instantly “share” any entry you’re viewing by simply typing “S” (shift-s). This adds the story’s title and source to your very own feed of shared links. And that feed can even be published as a linkroll on your site. Very cool.

Here’s what mine looks like when published on my site using Javascript:

Well, I also use Google Bookmarks, which is pretty strong as well. The problem is that these two systems (Shared Items and Google Bookmarks) don’t work together. Here are the two features that would greatly improve things:

The ability to linkroll (share) a site that you’re in the process of bookmarking.

The ability to bookmark a story from within Google Reader.

In other words, whether I am in Google Reader or just browsing normally — I need to be able to both add a site to bookmarks and/or send it to my linkroll from whichever interface I’m in.

Please Google, let’s make this happen. I’ll help you test if you need it.: